Ethnic rhinoplasty is a specialized field that addresses the particular needs of a non-Caucasian patient when re-shaping the nose. Like their Caucasian counterparts, ethnic patients wish to maintain the basic racial identifiers but may wish to streamline their nasal features. In other words, people of color are not looking to drastically change their racial appearance; the goal of this specialization is to specifically meet the needs of non-white candidates while maintaining their unique identity. Ethnic rhinoplasty is an advanced approach to nose surgery that helps patients of African, East Asian, Middle Eastern or Hispanic descent to achieve appealing nasal symmetry and shape. For instance, in order to build up a low nasal bridge in a person of African descent, the procedure is performed using contoured rib cartilage. Ethnic nose jobs often comprise the narrowing of wide nostrils or reducing a bulbous or drooping tip.
Procedures on ethnic patients are unlike traditional rhinoplasty because it requires special attention to unique nasal structures and accompanying facial features. Individuals of African descent have much different bone and cartilage structure from those Asian lineage or Anglo-Saxon heritage and will be addressed during the initial consultation. Applying a single standard, such as a Euro-Caucasian, to an ethnically driven rhinoplasty procedure would result in a poor representation of the individual and loss of racial identification. While these results may be desirable for some (think Michael Jackson), most people of non-white descent are looking for the same thing everyone else is: enhanced beauty within the natural lines of their lineage.
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While Caucasian celebrities, such as Heidi Montag and Erin Gray get a fair share of press about cosmetic procedures, people of color rarely make the nose job news. Perhaps the most famous is the late Michael Jackson whose rhinoplasty was anything but a routine ethnic procedure. Ethnic rhinoplasty is designed to maintain natural features while creating facial harmony. It is a subspecialty that has become increasingly popular with African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanics in recent years. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, procedures performed on non-white patients saw a 243% increase in the decade between 2000 and 2010. The increasingly mainstream acceptance of elective cosmetic procedures among ethnic groups is largely attributable to this explosive growth.
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